France's Le Pen proposes return to ECU-style system to replace euro

By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - Euro zone countries should retreat from the euro single currency and return to a "common currency" structure, French National Front leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday, evoking the era of the ECU basket of currencies. Speaking to Reuters after a New Year news conference, Le Pen, who hopes to be elected president of France in May, also said that French national debt would be denominated in a new national currency under her administration. Le Pen has long sa